The greatness of individuals can be decided only by those who live after them, not by their contemporaries.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The assessment of a great person is not a trivial one. The prompt suggests that people's greatness can be decided only by those who live after them and I mostly agree with the idea for three reasons.
To begin with, whatever greatness a person has shown, he or she may do something wrong during the rest of his or her life. It is the person's death when he or she will have no more direct influence on society. Hence, no one can make a complete judgment until he or she dies. For instance, Yang Jian, an emperor of the Sui dynasty, had done multiple great works during his youth. He constructed the Great Canal and eliminate the starvation in China. However, he insisted on attacking Korea, which was hugely against people's will. Many insurgencies broke out during his late years. Therefore, Yang Jian eventually left a bad reputation in China's history, despite the greatness in his early life.
Second, a person's reputation can affect the person itself. If a person enjoys a wonderful reputation, he or she may consequently become complacent, which harms his or her personality. On the other hand, a too good reputation can later cause negative assessments. For instance, Chen Kaige, a director famous for his very first movie, has never produced a movie comparable with his first and greatest one. Although his other movies aren't too bad, he suffers a bad reputation since people always keep a high expectation of him. Therefore, we cannot too focus on the temporary reputation of one person, especially when it's a good one.
Moreover, contemporaries may be shortsighted, cannot foresee the long-term influence of a person. For instance, The doctor who invented an operation, in which he cut off a part of the patient's brain, was rewarded a Nobel prize. Since his contemporaries believe this can cure any mental disease. However, people later realized that such an operation often wipe out a person's personality. Therefore, he gets enormously negative judgment nowadays.
However, the feedback from contemporaries is also significant. A person must listen to other's assessments to be aware of his or her disadvantages. In conclusion, a person's greatness can be better judged by people who live after them. Since not everyone can keep his or her greatness till death, a person's good reputation may rather end in a bad reputation, and contemporaries cannot foresee the long-term influence of a person. However, we shouldn't overlook contemporaries' opinions too.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
... the rest of his or her life. It is the persons death when he or she will have no more ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...greatness in his early life. Second, a persons reputation can affect the person itself...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: aren't
...greatest one. Although his other movies arent too bad, he suffers a bad reputation si...
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Message: Did you mean 'to focus'?
Suggestion: to focus
...xpectation of him. Therefore, we cannot too focus on the temporary reputation of one pers...
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Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...putation of one person, especially when its a good one. Moreover, contemporaries m...
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Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ents brain, was rewarded a Nobel prize. Since his contemporaries believe this can cur...
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Suggestion: persons'; person's
...that such an operation often wipe out a persons personality. Therefore, he gets enormou...
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Suggestion: persons'; person's
... or her disadvantages. In conclusion, a persons greatness can be better judged by peopl...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...term influence of a person. However, we shouldnt overlook contemporaries opinions too.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 12.9106741573 163% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2055.0 2235.4752809 92% => OK
No of words: 408.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03676470588 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49433085973 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93678491587 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536764705882 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 650.7 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9979332821 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 79.0384615385 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.6923076923 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.84615384615 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148897700587 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0474429065331 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064901414651 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120270283973 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839623848499 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.1392134831 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 48.8420337079 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.